What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

The SOAR Telescope sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón, part of the Chilean Andes mountain range. Recently, a rare winter storm swept across the Atacama desert, bringing snow to the driest place on Earth ...

Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...

Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

The team detected a huge gas giant dwelling in the protoplanetary disk of MP Mus, which had been previously hidden. This represents the first time Gaia has spotted an extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

As travelers continue to look for unique experiences under the night sky, astro-tourism is becoming increasingly popular ...